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DKUNKENNESS BEFORE BIRTH. 



In times past much has been said about 

 inheriting an appetite for strong drink; 

 but many physicians, if I am correct, rather 

 doubted it ; but it is very probable that the 

 common soothing syrups^ — Mrs. Winslow's, 

 for instance — all contain both alcohol and 

 morphine. These often have much to do in 

 giving persons a tendency toward the drink 

 iiabit from what they have received when 

 babies in the way of medicine. In the clip- 

 ping below is a statement that is really as- 

 tounding. Just notice the sentence, " The 

 child has been drunk many times before it 

 has been born." 



INDUSTRIAL PUBLICATIONS FIGHT LIQUOR TRADE. 



An editorial from " Craneing," published by the 

 Crane and Engineering Company, is typical of the 

 outspoken attitude of industry toward drink. In 

 part the editorial says: "The worst effect of alcohol 

 is the result of its use by women while bearing off- 

 spring. The child has been drunk many times before 

 it has been born. Scientific men stated in a 

 very positive manner that children generated and 

 born under the influence of liquor frequently do not 

 have an equal chance with better-born children ; they 

 are not brought into the world with normal minds. 

 Often the bodies, too, are puny. Men and women 

 who do not wish to be under the curse, till they die, 

 of having borne undersized, shrunken, mentally 

 stunted children, will study up on the effect of 

 alcohol on the cells of the human body." — Methodist 

 Board of Temperance. 



GROCERIES OR BEER — WHICH WILL DO HU- 

 MANITY THE MOST REAL GOOD "? 



We clip the following from the American 

 I.<:sue: 



The Minneapolis Journal is authority for the state- 

 ment that the Great Northern Railroad during the 

 last wet year in Itasca County, Minnesota, shipped 

 in 79 tons of beer, and in the first dry year shipped 

 no beer at all, but shipjjed un increase of 79 tons 

 of groceries. 



This causes Louis Albert Banks to remark that 

 "since the scientists te'l as you have to drink 31 1/^ 

 tuns of beer to get one ton of food, that was some 

 change for one station. 



V.'ISE SUGGESTIONS FROM 

 GREEN." 



'MRS. HETTIE 



We are just informed that Mrs. Hettie 

 Green, " the richest woman in the world," 

 as she has been called, is dead. She died at 

 the advanced age of 82. Now, whatever 

 may have been said of her and of her spe- 

 cial faculty for " laying up treasures on 

 earth/' she has given us some excellent rules 

 for living to a good old age, and preserving 

 the use of her faculties to a remarkable de- 

 gree thruout a life devoted to making riches 

 multiply. We clip the following from the 

 Cleveland Plain Dealer: 



HETTY green's LIFE RULES. 



Hetty Green once gave an interviewer the follow- 

 ing list of rules which she said were those of suc- 

 cess: 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Eat only good, wholesome food. 



Don't cheat. You may worry yourself into the 

 grave in remembering your misdeeds. 



Don't envy your neighbors. 



Don't overdi-ess. It makes others jealous. 



Dress warmly. Vanity in cold weather causes 

 many deaths. 



Go to church. The church needs you, and you 

 need the church. 



Don't forget that if your riches have been gained 

 by unfair means the doors of heaven will be bolted 

 against you. 



Be charitable. Don't falsify. 



Take a lot of exercise. Walk whenever you can. 



Obey all God's laws, including the precept: "Give 

 unto Csesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that 

 which is God's." 



THE CIGARETTE AND THE TOBACCO HABIT. 



I liold in my hand a neat little pamphlet 

 of 7G pages entitled, yn the front cover, 

 "The Case against the Little White felaver." 

 Par-l 4 is just out, and contains much im- 

 portant matter in regard to tobacco and 

 cigars. From the last page I quote one 

 .sentence as follows : 



Tlie world of today needs men, not those whose 

 minds and will power have been weakened or de- 

 stroyed by the desire and craving for alcohol and 

 tobacco, but, instead, men with initiative and vigor, 

 whose mentality is untainted by ruinous habits. 



The pamphlet in question can be obtained 

 by addressing Henry Ford, Detroit, Mich. 



WORDS ALMOST EXTRAVAGANTLY' IvIND, AND 

 SOMETHING ELSE. 



Dear Mr. Boot: — I have sent you some copies, a 

 report, and an almanac which I have preserved un- 

 til now. I would hardly part with them. They 

 seem to spur me on to mora earnest efforts to do the 

 will of our God. I think you will rejoice when you 

 look the books over to learn that there is one more 

 man in the world who is depending entirely on God 

 for all he needs. I like to hunt such people up; and 

 let me say right here I am not tr> ing to flatter, for 

 it is the truth, when I say that many times I have 

 cried when I have read your writings; and when I 

 thank God for blessings received I surely must thank 

 God for A. I. Root. I do not keep bees now. I 

 have taken Gleanings from away back in the 

 eighties ; and you can guess why — the old story that 

 many before me have said, because of the Home 

 papers. 



Chelmsford, Mass. C. L. Akerstrom. 



The literature referred to in the above is 

 in regard to the "Children's Home" at New 

 Britain, Ct. Years ago we sold and gave 

 away many copies of " Mueller's life of 

 Trust." The wonderful story of how Geo. 

 Mueller received millions of dollars for his 

 orphanage solely in answer to prayer, in- 

 terested our class in the Medina jail more 

 t^iian any other book. Well, 1 did not know 

 until just now that a similar work was 

 going oil here in America. For further 

 particulars address as above. 



